Year: 2020
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Obsessions
in: Event
Both my grandmothers were preoccupied with having a clean home. This grip might have been cultural; it might have been that both were survivors of the 1918 pandemic; it might have been some combination of many things. Cleanliness has recently reestablished its importance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, most publicly in the form…
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Rebalancing: Clarifying Priorities
in: Event
The daily political transactions executed in response to the pandemic vary widely by country, but trying to estimate where it all goes, where it takes us is another story. Richard Haass submits that these events won’t reshape history, but rather they will accelerate existing trends. While it is not clear to me what the difference…
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Brands #1
The globalization of brand, I guess, is a marker of the growth of a market place from a local to a world-wide one. When they expand into a new market do they add to the mix of products available or push out and replace? Are these better products? Do consumers have more choices? International brands…
